Promo music videos that answer each other (sorta)

I'm not quite sure why, but I dreamed about this song last night. It's Oingo Boingo, a band I think Danny Elfman did much better writing for than most of his film scores. It's not my favorite song--that might be "My Life"--but I do like it. It's so coolly insane.

"Stay."





Now, when it comes to The Spice Girls, I'm one of those who saw them as nothing more than inoffensive, dumb--in the best sense of the word--fun. And given a choice between their kind of pop and grunge, well, you know where I am every time.

Besides, if they're good enough for Nelson Mandela, they're good enough for me. However, what we have here is not a Spice Girls clip. What we have here is Emma Bunton, the once (and maybe future) Baby Spice, lip syncing her top five (overseas) hit "Free Me" on TV.

I saw her doing the same on the Craig Ferguson show a couple of years ago. I remember thinking that it sounded like a James Bond theme done by Olivia Newton-John circa "Magic." See if you don't think so too.

But when she gets to the chorus, whatever you do, do not think of "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger.